Nenana, Alaska
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Nenana train station and Parks Highway bridge
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| Coordinates: 64°33′29″N 149°5′26″W / 64.55806°N 149.09056°WCoordinates: 64°33′29″N 149°5′26″W / 64.55806°N 149.09056°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |
| Census Area | Yukon-Koyukuk |
| Incorporated | November 17, 1921 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jason P. Mayrand |
| • State senator | Click Bishop (R) |
| • State rep. | Dave Talerico (R) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6.1 sq mi (15.8 km2) |
| • Land | 6.0 sq mi (15.6 km2) |
| • Water | 0.1 sq mi (0.1 km2) |
| Elevation | 351 ft (107 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 378 |
| • Density | 66.6/sq mi (25.7/km2) |
| Time zone | Alaska (AKST) (UTC-9) |
| • Summer (DST) | AKDT (UTC-8) |
| ZIP code | 99760 |
| Area code | 907 |
| FIPS code | 02-53050 |
Nenana /nɛˈnænə/ (Toghotili in Lower Tanana language) is a Home Rule City in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the Unorganized Borough in the Interior of the U.S. state of Alaska. Nenana developed as a Lower Tanana community at the confluence where the tributary Nenana River enters the Tanana. The population was 378 at the 2010 census.
Completed in 1923, the 700-foot-long (210 m) Mears Memorial Bridge was built over the Tanana River as part of the state's railroad project connecting Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Nenana is in the westernmost portion of Tanana territory. (The Tanana are among the large Dené language family, also known as Athabascan.) The town was first known by European Americans as Tortella, a transliteration of the Indian word Toghotthele (TOG-uh-TEE-lee), which means "mountain that parallels the river." It was later named for the river and the Nenana people who live nearby. The Nenana people became accustomed to contact with Europeans, due to trading journeys to the Village of Tanana, where Russians bartered Western goods for furs from 1838.
The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. Early American explorers and traders, such as Henry Tureman Allen, Arthur Harper and Bates, first entered the Tanana Valley in 1874 and 1885.
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